ARTICLES 2008-2015

By Andrew M. Mwenda A common joke about our roads in Uganda goes like this: If you see someone driving zigzag, then you know he is sober; and if you see someone driving straight, they must be drunk. Why is the logic of driving inverted? Because we have too many …

By the Independent Team One of the key issues identified in crippling LRA is to kill its leader, Kony. This is not the first time voices in UPDF are saying this. In 2002, then Chief of Military Intelligence and Security, Brig. Noble Mayombo, began negotiations with a private security firm …

By Geoffrey Onegi-Obel Last week Dr Onegi-Obel described the limitation of the government’s `resource envelop’ budget driven response to the global economic slowdown including its impact on Uganda’s job creation, domestic savings and domestic direct investment. In this last of a two part series, he discusses possible solutions including a …

By Patrick Kagenda Basing on reduced US dollar remittances into the economy last December, Forex market operators are warning of a further battering of the shilling. Experts fear the dollar scarcity that led its value to shot up by 30% from Shs 1,700 to the dollar to Shs 2,200 before …

By The Independent Team President Yoweri Museveni has projected Uganda’s economic growth to be as high as 7.5% in the year ending June 30, according to a statement issued by the government Media Centre President. Mr Museveni based his projections on improved exports performance and investment in energy industries. “While …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The recent Uganda Peoples‘ Defence Forces (UPDF) attack on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was certainly the right thing to do, although the assault itself was ill-timed, poorly planned and incompetently executed. Before the assault, the Uganda government …

By Patrick Kagenda On November 3, 2008, Arthur Asiimwe Kirimani 25 was on his way to Baghdad Airport to board a plane that would return him to Uganda after a 10-month service with a private American security firm  EODT. The firm that is stationed at Forward Operating Base in northern …

By Tony Okao Otoa Jr One of my favourite Shakespeare plays is the one about Julius Caesar. The thing about this play that really makes me overly amazed is the ignorance of the leaders at the time and the intrigue and backstabbing that follows at the end. However my most …

By Andrew M. Mwenda  The inside story On December 4, 2008, President Yoweri Museveni called Finance Minister Ezra Suruma and ordered him to suspend the Managing Director of National Social Security Fund (NSSF), David Chandi Jamwa and his deputy, Mondo Kagonyera. For months, Suruma had been psychologically paralysed and unable …

By Obed K. Katureebe & John Njoroge Mufti of Uganda Sheikh Ramadhan Mubajje is facing a crisis as a section of his followers are set to elect a rival mufti come February 2009. The group led by among others former Mufti, Sheikh Obed Kamulegeya, accuse him of financial impropriety when …